Hi together,
i'm completly new to Pathfinder and D&D (except for some Baldurs Gate back in the days) and now looking forward for my first game. I decided to play a cleric, but as I don't really like any of the existing gods, the GM agreed that I could play a cleric of Curchanus (for a nature-centered half-orc) with the domains of animal and travel. So I now would kindly ask you to take a look at my idea of the god Curchanus, wheter it makes sense/any problems.
Thanks
P.S. My natural language is german, so there might be some grammar or spelling mistakes.
Curchanus
The forgotten God
previously God of beasts, travel and endurance
Alignment: NG or CG
Domains: none; previously animal and travel
Favored weapons: natural weapons (tooths, claws)
Centers of worship: none
Nationality: unknown, possibly initially a animal
Mostly knwon today is the story of Curchanus assassination by the evil god Lamashtu, as it is told by the godess of dreams and scholar of Curchanus and passed on by her believers:
http://paizo.com/paizo/blog/2007/august/v5748dyo5la5o
(my story differs a little bit, but the context is the same and i'm to tired to translate all of it)
Apart from that there isn't that much known about the god, who, in the opinion of academics, was worshiped in the first civilisations - or even early - as the god of animals and beasts, travel and endurance and who, according to some acient scrolls, was especially famous as the god of animals and beasts. The same scrolls seem to indicate that the god often appeared in animal shape or a combined shape of different animals and intelligent beings - sadly, it is not clear, which shapes he preferred. Some peopler even suggest that he might have developed from an worshiped animal (an wolf or eagle for example), which seem possible but there is till now no proof for this theory.
According to the legends of isolated tribes (e.g. in the Mammoth land) Curchanus was an tireless fighter for the good and and skilled negotiator between animals and intelligent beings but also, as the god of beasts and endurance, not happy about civilization and it rules and laws and instead prefering violence, status and turf wars as a solution for conflicts. Also he did not like settling down or any kind of softness which often brought him into conflict with Abadar and Erastil - at least, if certain oral traditions from barbaric tribes are to believed, who speak of the god of beast as a mighty ally in the fight against the advancing civilization.
Priests, temples and the church
And as the god is death for thousands of years now and he and his church have been mostly forgotten, somehow there a still a few priests in every generation who hold up the memory and the faith of Curchanus.
And even as everyone is sure that Curchanus really died, his priests still have the power of the animal and travel domain and can channel a gods power. Different cleriks and scholars have explained this as either a small piece of the god that wasn't destroyed and so still can grant powers or else other gods granting this powers (commonly Desna and Gozreh are named).
In the end, there isn't proof for any of this theories.
Normaly there aren't more than 2 dozen priests, mainly cleriks and druids and sometimes a ranger, at the same time and so it ist quite possible and even common for a priest to never met another of his faith. Many priests spend their hole life preaching about their god in remote places to primitiv tribes, loners or even animals and avoiding civilisation with it cities and law. All priests does have in common, that they try to keep alive the memory of their murdered master and try helping intelligent beings and animals getting along (especially in remote areas and in borderlands).
Like their god his priests are often adopt animal behaviors and for example solving conflicts through status wars, living of the land (often hunting without using traps or ranged weapons) and developing a territory (100s or 1000s of sqaremiles). Mostly they neither cut their hair nor care about their appearence so that they often get confused with druids - with whom they often share beliefs and which the quite often even call friends.
Because of all this their phsysical fitness is very important to the priests, which they train whenever possible and which allows them to hike long distances, even through difficult terrain, in short time.
Understandable the faith has only very few temples where they would hold services. Instead the priests take long walks as a form of medition or connect with there faith spending time in the wildernis often surrounded by animals.
That's it.
Thanks for the help in advance.
